Category: Season Three

This episode of Radio Rounds, featuring a pair of powerful and moving interviews, aired on January 17, 2010 and is available as a free-to-download podcast on our iTunes page!

First, we hear from Dr. Evan Lyon,  a physician for the Massachusetts-based organization ‘Partners in Health.’  For the past decade, Dr. Lyon has split his time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and seven Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante sites located in Haiti. With the devastating earthquake in Haiti just days before this episode, Dr. Lyon is on his way back to his clinics in Haiti. We were fortunate enough to speak to Dr. Lyon from his layover in Miami, FL. You can hear our interview with Dr. Lyon in its entirety by using the audio player below!

This episode also features special interview with a young patient named Brandon. In November 2009, ‘Rounds’ co-host Lakshman Swamy and a group of second year medical students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine visited the Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center at Akron Children’s Hospital, in Akron, Ohio. While at the Center, they met and spoke with numerous patients, families, and physicians. Among them — Brandon, who spoke with Lakshman & co. bedside, along with his mother and his physician. Brandon is 14 years old and has neuroblastoma. He describes — with inspiring perspective — his diagnosis and his life. This is the first of a pair of interviews featuring patients from the Haslinger Center — for more, see Episode 307.

Finally, in this episode’s Residency Program segment, we hear from Dr. Steven Reichert, the program director for the Cornell University Internal Medicine program at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, in New York City.

This episode, which aired on January 24, 2010, is available on iTunes!

This episode features Dr. Christine Montross, a psychiatrist at Brown University and author of the 2007 book entitled Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab. In her book, she describes her experience as a first year medical student learning anatomy from her human cadaver — her first patient, so to speak. In our interview, she told us about her inspiration behind writing the book and shares a terrific story about how she and her classmates came to name their cadaver “Eve.”

Dr. Montross eloquently humanizes the traditional medical student experience of human dissection. As she writes in Body of Work about her “bone box” that she was given to study, “This used to be a person. I am carrying parts of a person in this box, and no one knows it. When I reach the trunk [of my car], I hesitate for a minute and wonder if I should put the box on the seat beside me instead. ” Dr. Montross is one of the few physicians who also has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and her poetic nature is exemplified  in this episode.

Finally, in the weekly Residency segment, we hear from Dr. Gary Frishman, Director of the OB/GYN Residency Program at Brown University. This episode also features an update from Dr. Evan Lyon, a physician with Partners in Health who is in Haiti aiding with the massive relief efforts following the January 2010 earthquake. Dr. Lyon has appeared on numerous Radio Rounds episodes — Episodes 202, 303, 307, and 412.

This is the Season3 premiere of Radio Rounds, which aired on January 3, 2010 and is available as a free download on our iTunes page!

Indeed, Season 3 of Radio Rounds got off to a hot start, so to speak, as the ‘Rounds crew’ welcomed special guest Dr. Harlan Selesnick, the team physician for the NBA’s Miami Heat.

Dr. Selesnick also served in 2000 as the physician for the Gold Medalist U.S Men’s Olympic Basketball Team in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Selesnick shares with the Radio Rounds team the intricacies of his orthopedic practice in Miami, as well as the rewards and challenges of working regularly with high-profile professional athletes. He also discusses how he came to be a sports team physician in the first place, and he takes us all behind-the-scenes of his popular “The Jock Doc” column for The Miami Herald.

Again, the free-to-download podcast of the show is on our iTunes page!